PM Modi Performs Yoga With Thousands at Delhi’s Rajpath
International Yoga Day in 5 Pictures
Delhi’s India Gate is all decked up for Yoga Day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who practices Yoga daily, launches the celebrations to mark the International Yoga Day. PM Modi made Yoga Day a key initiative of his government. “Yoga has the power to bring the entire humankind together!” PM Modi tweeted last year after pitching the idea of celebrating an International Yoga Day, during his speech to the UN General Assembly.
International Yoga Day celebrations launched: PM Modi joins 45,000 people at Rajpath in practising Yoga.
Thousands of participants gather at Rajpath to perform various asanas. The Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy), which is coordinating the event, aims to register it into the Guinness World Records for the “largest yoga demonstration or class at a single venue”.
The stage is set for a grand celebration of the International Yoga Day.
Students practice yoga in the lawns of their school ahead of International Day of Yoga, in Chennai, India, June 19, 2015
